Few Facebook Users Vote On Proposed Changes

Monday

Dec 10, 2012 at 9:44 PM

The Facebook polls have closed and, even though the social network had its biggest turnout ever, too few users cast ballots to have a say in the company's proposed policy changes. Nearly nine in 10 of those who voted were against the proposed changes, but only about 668,000 people cast ballots.

The Facebook polls have closed and, even though the social network had its biggest turnout ever, too few users cast ballots to have a say in the company's proposed policy changes. Nearly nine in 10 of those who voted were against the proposed changes, but only about 668,000 people cast ballots. That's a tiny percentage of Facebook's users, which number more than 1 billion. Facebook requires that 30 percent of Facebook users participate for a vote to count. Facebook has held two earlier elections and neither met that threshold. Among the proposals: whether Facebook can loosen restrictions on who can message you on Facebook and whether it can share information with its affiliates, including popular photo-sharing service Instagram.